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The Nameless Fanfic by thelongestway
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala
31 Aug 2025
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move me, baby / shake like the bough of a willow tree by toomanystoryideas
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala
06 Oct 2023
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"Adin isn’t surprised that he finds himself in Aspen’s bed—or, well, lack thereof. He wishes he could say there was a pretension of romance to it, but the butterflies in his stomach are less about a blushing idea of love and more about how high he has to climb to swing his body into Aspen’s Arborean tree-nest-sleeping-spot." -topazastral (adin pov author)
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"Tal knows it’s the middle of the night, and Tal knows ke probably shouldn’t be doing this." -toomanystoryideas (tal pov author)
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Co-written by topazastral (the wonderful author of "076.5: WHAT" and "Geneses") because after 102: BED dropped we were both very inspired LOL. Go check out their fics after if you haven't read them already because they are SO. GOOD. You don't even know. -
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What I imagine Aspen singing as they work alone on the ship, adding verses as time goes on.
I was inspired by the absolute futility of the first song - with plot bunnies, who will ever reach the end? And so it is on the Javelin Courageous. (plus, bonus inspiration of a meme song)
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- English
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- 368
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- 1/1
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- 2
- Comments:
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Connection Test Start by thelongestway
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2025
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SecUnit has told Senior Indah it is open to further work, but only if the work is really weird. So when a research transport from an unfamiliar non-corporate political entity called Trellin arrives at Preservation Station and starts throwing strange errors within seconds of contact, SecUnit is tasked with figuring out what the hell is wrong with that ship. (A lot. A lot is wrong with that ship. One, it’s not ART. Two, it’s kind of an asshole anyway. Three, it has feelings. And morals. And that last one might be the worst.)
Set post-canon for Time to Orbit: Unknown, and between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect for The Murderbot Diaries. VERY heavy spoilers for TTOU - if you haven't read it and don't want to be spoilered on some very major developments near the end, you should get on the normal spaceship before reading this story. Spoilers for TMBD are lighter - mostly what position SecUnit is in between book 6 and book 5. Lighter sci-fi than TTOU, about TMBD level.
Work is complete and edited, but I am testing out a staggered release system, which I've never tried before. So I'm going to try to keep a Wed/Fri/Sun release schedule.
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- Part 1 of The Nameless Fanfic
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Formless and Vanquished We Shall Travel by thelongestway
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Mar 2025
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One Public Universal Friend runs a corporate blockade with a shuttle full of refugees, fully expecting to die in the process. Instead, it wakes up on an unfamiliar ship, with a bot pilot that informs the Friend that it is well aware of the Friends' existence and has helped it escape pursuit. In the Corporate Rim era, the Friends have been forced into becoming an underground operation, and they have few allies. Stranded, disoriented, and hounded by a corporation in possession of an anti-terrorism mandate, the Friend must deal with its situation and not sink its entire organization in the process.
Direct continuation of Connection Test Start. Releases on a Wed/Fri/Sun schedule.
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- Part 2 of The Nameless Fanfic
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Digging in the Dirt by thelongestway
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Aug 2025
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Following the events of Connection Test Start, one doctor from Preservation Alliance decides to make things right and sets out for the Corporation Rim, hoping to unearth and eventually bring to justice a certain humanitarian-cum-terrorist organisation. Utterly unprepared for the reality of the Rim, the good doctor finds far more horrors than they ever bargained for—but also many more friends than they expected. Nobody is what they seem to be, and now Dr. Mrinal must decide what to do with what they have discovered and live with their choice.
Traditionally, the work is complete (with only technical edits remaining as of the time of posting), and the posting schedule is Wed/Fri/Sun.
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- Part 5 of The Nameless Fanfic
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The Worst Movie Night by thelongestway
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Apr 2025
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The alien remnant contamination did far more damage to Perihelion's wormhole drive than anyone had initially realized, and the PSUMNT researchers are at a loss with how to solve the problem. But SecUnit and its Preservation humans have seen “super fast organic wormhole drives” before. With the reluctant permission of Perihelion's crew, a distress call is sent to Trellin, and three scientist teams, two sentient research transports, and one SecUnit convene to figure out how (and whether) ART can get its wings back.
Set after System Collapse. Updates Wed/Fri/Sun.
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- Part 3 of The Nameless Fanfic
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[Podfic] Connection Test Start by Mousek for thelongestway
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Jun 2025
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"SecUnit has told Senior Indah it is open to further work, but only if the work is really weird. When a research transport from an unfamiliar non-corporate political entity called Trellin arrives at Preservation Station and starts throwing strange errors within seconds of contact, SecUnit is tasked with figuring out what the hell is wrong with that ship. (A lot. A lot is wrong with that ship. One, it’s not ART. Two, it’s kind of an asshole anyway. Three, it has feelings. And morals. And that last one might be the worst.)
Set post-canon for Time to Orbit: Unknown, between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect for The Murderbot Diaries. HEAVY spoilers for TTOU - if you haven't read it and don't want to be spoilered on some very major developments near the end, you should get on the normal spaceship before reading this story. Spoilers for TMBD are lighter - mostly what position SecUnit is in between book 6 and book 5. Lighter sci-fi than TTOU, about TMBD level."
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- Part 1 of [Podfic of] The Nameless Fanfic
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Heavy spoiler on chapters 95-96, doesn't go further than chapter 97 for now.
They've wasted their life dreaming of another place. A better plan, that isn't a cell, where they aren't constrained, and yet they have it. All they have to do is to keep the colony straight despite the terrible administration.
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Roots and Branches by thelongestway
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Jun 2025
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Being responsible for the security of two separate groups of humans is hard enough when SecUnit knows and likes the ships they are travelling on. But once its humans arrive at the incredibly normal space station in orbit of Trellin, SecUnit finds their potential new allies to be much more difficult to deal with than most hostiles. To do its job, it must navigate local privacy customs, dead and/or naked humans, experimental biomes full of planetary fauna and, worst of all, the helpful local HubSystem, which happens to be a) very friendly, b) totally useless at security, c) really fucking creepy. Can SecUnit keep its humans safe and not be driven absolutely beeshit by argumentative social scientists, HubSystem or human, along the way? It’s about to find out.
Direct continuation of The Worst Movie Night. Story is complete and edited, posting Wed/Fri/Sun.
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- Part 4 of The Nameless Fanfic
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Voices From the Pegasus Constellation by thelongestway
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jul 2025
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A collection of short stories portraying some of the events of The Nameless Fanfic from the perspectives of Trellians (and other members of Starwind Accord). Character tags updated as stories get published.
Note that these short stories are placed in different points of the main continuity and are best read one at a time! Links to the relevant stories are given chronologically in the main storyline.
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- Part 6 of The Nameless Fanfic
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Sam Sareff's Book of Constellations by Gheyn
Fandoms: Time to Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala
02 Aug 2023
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In chapter 72, Sam Sareff says, "Constellations form the bedrock of some of our oldest cosmologies and folklore. . . I’m trying to make some speculative guesses about what they’re going to be."
Here are a few speculative guesses. ⭐
Ch1: Courageous - "The day came that Life reached out with shining wings, and kissed Her feathers goodbye, and cast them into space in the form of gleaming ships. One such ship was the Courageous."
Ch2: The Three Sisters - "Legend tells of three sisters, each more beautiful than the last. Earth and Luna were the dearest of friends, while Mars hovered closely enough to remain—if not in their affections, at least in their considerations."
Ch3: Great A'Tuin - "It is said that the Turtle moves but a centimeter in a day. It is said that the Turtle's natural shell rivals the hardest of diamonds. It is said that the Turtle, once toppled, will spin endlessly on its back, helpless as a newborn, until it withers away."
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Adin seeks some comfort after his semi-disastrous start as captain. Of course this leads him to Aspen’s nest…
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"Somewhere, everyone else is sleeping. Here, Tal is awake; so is the monitor."
Tal reflects on the machine.
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Aspen feels bad. Imagining Tinera helps.
(Spoilers through chapter 100.)
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Aspen wakes up from chronostasis and find out they can't open the airlock door to acess the rest of the ship.
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Heli sees one (1) weakness and acts immediately.
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Chapter 76, but Sands is a little less monogamous.